About the Author

Memory Loss and Dementia

Susan W. Lehmann, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Day Hospital and the Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. She also serves as the Director of the Psychiatry Clerkship and directs medical student education in psychiatry in the clinical years for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her clinical and research interests include late life mood disorders, especially bipolar disorder, mental health issues in older women, and outpatient management of geriatric patients with psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders.